From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 25 9:55: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ABF737B423 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 37117A876; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:54:13 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:54:13 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How Is The FeeBSD OS Like and Different Than Say Redhat or Suse LINUX Message-ID: <20010425115413.C74143@cec.wustl.edu> References: <15077.30207.8849.168351@guru.mired.org> <200104250915.f3P9FcB152869@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104250915.f3P9FcB152869@saturn.cs.uml.edu>; from acahalan@cs.uml.edu on Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:15:38AM -0400 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 05:15:38AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Mike Meyer writes: > > This does bring up a question - how many Linux package distribution > > systems let you change the installation point if you want to? > > How many do not? Slackware maybe? > > The package has to be created properly to be relocatable. The author > of the control file should use relative paths or paths with variables > in them, as appropriate for the packaging system. I seem to recall > that the RPM format even has a flag to indicate if this has been done. A great deal of dpkg and rpm packages will not allow you to relocate them. Common examples are gnome-libs, kde-libs, and other stuff that you probably want moved more than anything. Of course, since all of gnome depends on the libraries, that also means you can't move any of the gnome packages. A classic example of how linux is simpler and more intelligent than FreeBSD... until you want to customize things. Slackware is the only system that gives you FULL control over where packages are kept (at least in the old days). Since slackware packages are simply tarballs, you can extract them anywhere you like. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message